LAST week, former Executive Director of the NNPC, Aminu Baba-Kusa, filed a statement of witness at the High Court in Abuja. He told the court that N2.2 billion had been spent on prayers to hasten the defeat of Boko Haram. The money had been released in two tranches of N1, 450, 000, 000 and N750, 000, 000. Not only was the huge sum of money released, the contract proposal had in fact been verbal.

Fixtures involving the three Nigeria Profes-sional Football League (NPFL) clubs with continental engagements have been reschedule to accommodate the return leg of the second round of the two Confederation of African Football (CAF) Club competitions which takes place this weekend. The fixtures didn’t follow the two weeks return leg format and are holding just a week after the first legs played last weekend.

Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez were all on target as Barcelona piled more pressure on under-fire Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger by easing into the Champions League quarter-finals 5-1 on aggregate with a 3-1 win at the Camp Nou on Wednesday.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM, is set to hold its 2016 Career & Entrepreneurship Fair, themed Owning Your Future, on Thursday April 7, in Lagos with aim of promoting entrepreneurship by providing a platform for potential entrepreneurs and job seekers to access information, opportunities and resources to start small businesses, become self employed and create jobs.

No fewer than 22 worshipers, including the bombers, were killed in yesterday’s early morning twin suicide bombing at Molai-Umarari village, behind the Molai Hospital, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

“Open the blinds that cover their eyes, turn on the lights inside their minds, put all judgments and rumours aside and instead, put Truth and Justice, at both your sides. Leave the egos and drama all behind. And in time…truth always wins with Time.”- Suzy Kassem in Rise Up and Salute the Sun.

WHILE Super Eagles head coach, Samson Siasia is yet to know who will make his squad for the crucial double header 2017 Afcon qualifiers against the Pharaohs, his Egyptian counterpart, Hector Cuper has already announced his 25-man squad.

Super Falcons chief coach, Florence Omagbemi has dismissed speculations that she may renege on her appointment as interim coach of the national women team.

Community leaders and traders in the popular Mile 12 Market, which erupted in an orgy of violence two weeks ago have agreed with the plan of the Lagos State Government to relocate the market to another suitable and more convenient location within the state.

Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasaq Fadipe, yesterday , warned Lagosians especially motorists, to desist from indiscriminate storage of the Premium Motor Spirit otherwise called petrol.

THE Federal Government has empowered Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to jail dealers in substandard products for ten years.

ABEOKUTA—No fewer than 10 persons reportedly lost their lives, while six others sustained injuries in an auto crash yesterday at the Ajebo end of Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

jos — principals of public schools in Nigeria, under the aegis of the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools, ANCOPSS, have lamented the increasing slow pace of work going on in public schools across the country which they blamed on the introduction of the Treasury Single Account, TSA.

SINCE January 31, 2016, the atmosphere of several communities of Ndokwa East, Delta State located in the West Bank of River Niger, has been distinctly uncomfortable. This was the day Fulani herdsmen, fully armed with their AK 47 riffles moved in swiftly with their cattle into the farm lands of Abala and Utchi communities including their satellite communities that are in the thick rain forest.

IF you think the National Universities Commission, NUC, law that prohibits satellite campuses in Nigeria affects the Ekiti State University, EKSU, in Lagos, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Samuel Oye Bandele who matriculated 862 at the College of Education, Ijanikin, Lagos, has said that EKSU is an affiliate, not a satellite campus.